One of the hottest certifications today is the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) by EC-Council. Although this cert has been around for several years now, it seems as though 2006 is the year that the IT training industry has caught onto it as well. With numerous books on the general topics of ethical hacking and penetration testing hitting the market in the last 12 months, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing titles for specific certifications in this area.

CBT Nuggets, some of my favorite IT training videos, has added a Certified Ethical Hacker Series to their library of titles. James I. Conrad takes his shot at showing you the ropes in 11 hours of videos broken into 21 nugget-sized chunks. Although this is clearly not enough time to show the viewer everything there is to know about defending your network from hackers, their tools and techniques, it should be plenty of time to get your studies headed in the right direction.